I’d like to conduct a really detailed study of people doing distance courses for university vs people doing their courses on campus. Motivation, work ethic, performance, time spent studying, anything relevant really. There’s likely a very different group of people doing courses online compared to the usual university crowd, so I know grades don’t prove much, but it’s possible that online courses are just the way of the future. The people who seriously want to learn can, and will, continue to succeed while hopefully eliminating the less dedicated students.
It’s quite possible that a study has already been done on this, but I’m not as interested in the results as I am in the idea of researching something like that o.0 Still, if you google up something relevant, send it to me!
Spoils by Protest the Hero, from their album Fortress. A phrase from the lyrics jumped out at me today, which is why I’m posting this song specifically. It’s still an amazing song, but either way, words!
Every word ever written will fall short of its intent,
Even sung, or spoke, or screamed, they will betray what they have meant.
Language is the heart’s lament, a weak attempt to circumvent the
loneliness inherent in the search for permanence.
All the future ghosts who scratch their names in wet cement,
Demeaning meaning as they shout out at the emptiness.
What say ye? Is your tumblr a series of shouts into the emptiness of the inter-tubes? Do your words perfectly convey the thoughts and feelings they’re meant to represent? Does it make you feel better to write your thoughts publicly, with the assumption that anyone who really cares about you will actually read them?
(kinda, hopefully, yes - in that order)
“But in the back of his mind a small foreign man with glasses was bleeding and confused, and then dead for no reason at all except that he’d once been alive.”
p. 158 of The Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Destructoid likes people to introduce themselves, so I’ve now done mine. You can see it there. Do you like it? Let me know!
I don’t know how much of it you can watch on there, but good luck finding a torrent for an episode of Regis and Kelly. If you find a better link, let me know.
Update on drunk party: They didn’t get kicked out, and think they got the guy they were talking to fired. They were quite proud of that.
Just watched twenty drunk people get kicked out of our hotel. When we came in to park, they were all partying out by the pool. Then they started leaving that area and taking the tables and chairs with them XD So either they were snagging the hotel stuff or they brought their own to have a party there, either of which is hilarious. Then we go into the main lobby and many of them are there, and two drunk frat boys are arguing with the staff. Then as we went to the elevator to go up to our floor, a Mountie - not a police officer, oh no, this was a real Mountie with his little hat and vest and everything - came into the building. Presumably to eject the loud partygoers, who apparently were disturbing a pregnant woman badly enough that she complained.
It’s fun reading a book with an unreliable narrator, right? Makes the whole experience that much more intellectual. Some games have used a modified version of the idea and intentionally misled the player, and when it works, it works incredibly well. Couldn’t hurt to see more of that.
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I pasted a short bit from a Z-Day story written by myself. The result I got was that I write like Stephen King.
Apparently my depression post is like Dan Brown. Somehow.
My modern neurasthenia post is like Jonathan Swift, and I’m ok with that.
My post about future orientedness is also like Dan Brown… Uh oh.
My valedictorian speech is like Stephen King o.0
I don’t have any fiction I’ve written with me, so I guess that’s all the analysis I’m going to get. *bookmarks for later*
Incinerated Wishes by Division By Zero.Click the above link to listen to the song, because tumblr doesn’t allow songs over 10 mb. Click the link to the side for lyrics.
Division by Zero is a great example of actually progressive metal, and particularly these guys have crazy range. I think True Peak is a little more varied, but I like the lyrics of this song better.
They’ve just released a new album as well, and they’re actually somewhat easy to track down now, so yay! They deserve to be more well known.
Asking sky,
Asking deep,
Asking painter of light, where is the way I should go?
Hey, wait, don’t you want to know?
For you, I lost my mind!
For you, I lost my soul!
Hooray! The one key event in my trip to the United States to meet Vael!
Woke up an hour in advance of our alarm like usual, which was good because it didn’t go off. Left here at 8 am, arrived at 10 am. Got in and spent about three hours in the dealer’s room examining many fine wares, as well as dropping by the booth manned by the creator of Billy vs Snakeman to score me some free stuffs and chat about the game long enough to lose Vael’s interest and learn he recognized me by my character name for being awesome. Later, we split up - basically twenty feet between us - while he bought something and I went back to BvS man’s anime booth and talked about the game long enough to lose Vael himself. So then we meandered around looking for eachother, and after a while I recognized him from afar and bounded over to catch up with him.
At that point we realized we had spent three hours buying crap and hadn’t even seen the rest of the con yet, so we went to a local tavern (complete with sticky floors) before running back to see stuff. We went in to a panel only to realize the thing we were looking for was actually on Sunday (today was Saturday for those not keeping track at home) and quietly excused ourselves after attracting attention by being obviously disinterested. Then we went looking for a the Steampunk Music Experience thing only to find out it had been cancelled and replaced by a Rock Band tournament. Great, but not good enough.
I think at this point we had a bit of time before the next interesting panel, so we went back to the dealer’s room and looked at more stuff (including some awesome but inconvenient steampunk goggles) before watching a Super Art Fight featuring, among others, Yuko Ota, Garth Graham and Lar deSouza. Then we saw a panel about Why You Can’t Move To Japan and Instantly Be Famous. Then we went to a Secret Webcomic Panel, which was so secret nobody showed up. So we went to see the guys behind Atomic Robo and 8-Bit Theatre, which was fun. Then we went absolutely nowhere and waited for Cyanide & Happiness to come to us, and while only one C&H guy was there, it was funny and great. We eventually began giving standing ovations to anyone entering the room late. We got some stickers from one of the stand-ins for his own webcomic so that was good.
After that, we ran by the artist alley (which seemed to be closing down anyway) because we hadn’t been there and checked out stuff and talked to people at booths because we learned from the Cyanide & Happiness panel that it’s weird when people totally ignore you. I snagged a shirt for $10 which was great and then we took off.
I acquired:
Total: $152, proving we did in fact spend money so we could spend more money